Re: USB Camera Issues


Not all cameras can be mounted as simple USB mass storage devices, i.e.
my Powershot A80, and I have to use Gphoto to get my pics. But if you
can mount it that way, a simple way to find out where your machine is
identifying your cam, do:

tail -f /var/log/syslog

Plug in your camera, and it will tell you that it's waiting for the
device to settle and then you will give you the dev path, something
like:

/dev/sdb1

then you can: (I'm mounting a 2 gig thumbdrive here, but it's the same
stuff)

mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/thumbdrive

Where you would:

mkdir /mnt/camera
mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/camera

Most camera flash cards are formatted in fat filesystem. Make sure you
create the directory you want to mount your device to. If your syslog
does not give you the info you are looking for, you can always try an
utility like sgscan. Also, you might want to add this to your
/etc/fstab and give it the user option, so that you can mount it as
user and not as root.

HTH,

Mark


Jorge Mataleo wrote:
Running Ubunutu (dapper), I am trying to get access to the pictures on my
digital camera. It's a late-model camera that the usual apps don't
recognize (gtkam, gphoto2, the one that automatically comes up when you
plug your camera into the USB port...) I would like to just mount it
somewhere, but I can't find which device to mount from- there's no
/dev/usb/, /dev/ubX, or /dev/sdX, which I thought were the usual suspects.
Here's the entry for /proc/bus/usb/devices:-

T: Bus=05 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=07 Cnt=01 Dev#= 7 Spd=480 MxCh= 0 D: Ver=
2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=04a9
ProdID=3119 Rev= 0.02 S: Manufacturer=Canon Inc.
S: Product=Canon Digital Camera
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 2mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3
Cls=06(still) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none) E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=
512 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=83(I)
Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=64ms

And here's what the system log says when I plug it in:-

Jun 13 12:40:29 localhost kernel: [4372675.073000] usb 5-8: new high
speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8

Any ideas on how to get at it?

TIA,

.

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